You want to give Microsoft the benifit of the doubt for demanding that thier customers pay them twice for the operating system for every PC they buy?!!??
If one day, I decided to replace all the X-terminals in our factory with PC's running Linux, I could very well run into this problem. The same would go for many of the point of sale type setups that some companies are using Linux for, with thousands of machines being involved.
This type of thing only going to get more likely in the future.
On another note, if I were buying machines from a company and they turned me in, I would never buy from them ever again.
Bullshit. I voted for Bush and this whiny crap about "Gore really won" is pathetic.
I am actually getting mad at Bush for not taking a HARDER stance. I hope congress begins the process of revoking the Most Favored Nation status that should never have been granted in the first place. I also want our representitives on the IOC to make sure its a cold day in hell before China hosts the olimpics.
I also believe that if we really do "apologize", we'll get 23 service people back and the pilot will remain in China and be charged in the death of their pilot.
They are holding our people hostage, plain and simple.
SO Red Hat has to be destroyed. Ummm, in your whole rash of postings I agreee with some of your statements, but if you really believe in a free market capitalist economy, then Red Hat just has to do business. If they succeed or fail is up to them. Morons suing them because they (gasp!) lost money is bull. That is the most damaging thing the internet economy gave us was a sense of entitlement for investors. Doing business and investing in business is risky. Red Hat is doing business with all the risks involved, if they make money great, if they lose money and go out of business it will be up to someone else to create a new business model and try to succeed. I personally think the future of linux distros may well rest in the non-profit arena (like debian)
And that is a bad thing for the companies. Right now too many companies are focusing on their shareholder wealth when they should be focusing on their customer. During this current economic downturn companies don't think twice about laying off 1,000 people, they're cocerned only with the bottom line.
Well guess what all those other companies that are having trouble, they're laying people off too, and many times the people other companies are laying off are your customers, just like your employees are customers in other companies. Net result, less spending by the customer (as a whole) less growth for your company more trouble. Its a viscious cycle and CEO's are all falling into the cost cutting trap.
The real way out is to put your customers out front and let the stock value follow. Don't cut your workforce just to save money, you won't lose stock vaule but you'll lose product and service values. It'll cost you more in the long run (eventually even in the stock value).
I was actaully looking for this post in this thread I'm suprised it took until post 53. The internet was created by the US, plain and simple. It has expanded to include the whole world and is "a virtual space without borders", but is sure as hell has a heirarchies, thats what the TLD's are for. More TLD's may create an internet without heirarchies, but do we want that. Wasn't there just an article a day or so ago talking about how hard it is for the search engines to keep track of the net. Now with more TLD's that will become easier? Sure it will.....
These companies don't think they're pirating software, Microsoft does. This is all about intrepretation and Microsofts interpretation is that you can't transfer liscenses (if you upgrade to a newer machine or in some cases just newer hardware). There are issues with seat licences with their server OSes too. When originally released NT was never, ever going to have per user client licences (Novell did that and that was evil, Microsoft told us). Then they created Windows NT 4.0 with, guess what, per seat licences, lying bastards.
Microsoft is moving to per seat licences for almost all their new software. This is harder than hell to keep up with, espically if the licencses aren't transferrable.
Don't be suprised if the first.NET components check your licenses with the Microsoft home office, and that after you have upgraded your hardware and/or your whole PC you will be conviently asked for your credit card #.
The RIAA better catch people with thousands of MP3's on their system, because the first person they put away for stealing 1 or 2 of Metallica's songs will cause them a PR nightmare. They are faced right now with having to do the near unthinkable (but they have few options left) and that it to put their customer in jail. The outcry from the public will be huge. Why? Because the penalty will far outweigh the crime and because of the outrageous markup on CD's these days. C'mon if I can buy a burnable CD for a dollar pressing out thousands of CD is costing cents (if that) per CD.
If the penalty for the first few examples the RIAA chooses to go after (stealing bits) exceeds the penalty that a first time drunk driver (putting other peoples lives in jeopardy) gets, then the message will come across to the public loud and clear, and they'll be mad as hell.
Amen brother. I'm growing tired of the Microsoft defenders that point to it as being good enough, better, or all you need. I want choice, and yes sometimes that choice can be Microsoft, but if they are the only choice, you won't even know what you are missing.
Open source software has been somewhat like a religion in that it is opening the eyes of people to different methods of doing things ("I was blind but now I see"). This is not bad, the grousing by Microsoft supporters is mostly just because the ease of their choice is being removed, you have to make decisions based on merit, cost etc. and not just based on that being the only thing you can get.
Ironically, though, many influential members of the open source community are actually quite wealthy themselves (a least living comfortably). Much the same as Mr. Franklin. It appears that Open Source philanthropy is only new in terms of software.
This is a fascinating piece.
But then again, Franklins stove was an actual patentable device. Software and espically business methods should not even be patentable!
Not only that, but MusicCity claims to link all their servers together (way more than 30k users). But up to now the most I'd seen was about 25k or so. Its been going up steadily, three weeks ago they were in the 12-16k range for users on their servers.
OpenNap sites, thats where the users went. I went there months ago.
That's true its the law. This just makes me more convinced that if the Founding Fathers were alive today they would be seriously thinking of overthrowing our current government.
To hear today's politicians talk of the "Founders wishes" makes me sick. They talk about it and then they make laws directly opposed to those wishes.
First: How many of you Tivo owners out there also own a PC? My bet is everyone who owns a Tivo also owns a PC.
Second: Exactly how many times has your Tivo told you you are not allowed to record a program. I'd bet none here.
The Tivo is a specialized device and carries as mentioned above an big ease of use factor. Its not a PC, but as my first question states, it does no eliminate the need for a PC.
Specialization is an ease of use thing.
The copy control stuff that is being worked on will not be what the consumer wants to buy. As dumb as consumers are, they always recoil at attempts to control their actions (see Divx, etc.). Content controlled hardware will suffer the same fate, all that will be needed is manufacturers who DON'T make it. Those manufacuters will OWN the market, because consumers will notice the benifits of having devices without those limitations.
I'm doing training on specific setup so its not costing that much. We're looking at 4 operators and 1 admin to train. Even if the other admin was sent to training cost for that would only be about $ 3,000.
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You want to give Microsoft the benifit of the doubt for demanding that thier customers pay them twice for the operating system for every PC they buy?!!??
Give me a break!!
They're supposed to be paying double for the operating system.
If one day, I decided to replace all the X-terminals in our factory with PC's running Linux, I could very well run into this problem. The same would go for many of the point of sale type setups that some companies are using Linux for, with thousands of machines being involved.
This type of thing only going to get more likely in the future.
On another note, if I were buying machines from a company and they turned me in, I would never buy from them ever again.
Gee I use my guns to kill birds. Guess thats two purposes. Oh and I can shoot at targets too, make that three.
What'd be best part (for the distributors of the DVD's) is that there would be no difference between the grover voice over and they regular Yoda. ;-)
Bullshit. I voted for Bush and this whiny crap about "Gore really won" is pathetic.
I am actually getting mad at Bush for not taking a HARDER stance. I hope congress begins the process of revoking the Most Favored Nation status that should never have been granted in the first place. I also want our representitives on the IOC to make sure its a cold day in hell before China hosts the olimpics.
I also believe that if we really do "apologize", we'll get 23 service people back and the pilot will remain in China and be charged in the death of their pilot.
They are holding our people hostage, plain and simple.
SO Red Hat has to be destroyed. Ummm, in your whole rash of postings I agreee with some of your statements, but if you really believe in a free market capitalist economy, then Red Hat just has to do business. If they succeed or fail is up to them. Morons suing them because they (gasp!) lost money is bull. That is the most damaging thing the internet economy gave us was a sense of entitlement for investors. Doing business and investing in business is risky. Red Hat is doing business with all the risks involved, if they make money great, if they lose money and go out of business it will be up to someone else to create a new business model and try to succeed. I personally think the future of linux distros may well rest in the non-profit arena (like debian)
It only needs to return a status code when you make main an int. So step 5 is not a bug until you do step 1.
And that is a bad thing for the companies. Right now too many companies are focusing on their shareholder wealth when they should be focusing on their customer. During this current economic downturn companies don't think twice about laying off 1,000 people, they're cocerned only with the bottom line.
Well guess what all those other companies that are having trouble, they're laying people off too, and many times the people other companies are laying off are your customers, just like your employees are customers in other companies. Net result, less spending by the customer (as a whole) less growth for your company more trouble. Its a viscious cycle and CEO's are all falling into the cost cutting trap.
The real way out is to put your customers out front and let the stock value follow. Don't cut your workforce just to save money, you won't lose stock vaule but you'll lose product and service values. It'll cost you more in the long run (eventually even in the stock value).
I was actaully looking for this post in this thread I'm suprised it took until post 53. The internet was created by the US, plain and simple. It has expanded to include the whole world and is "a virtual space without borders", but is sure as hell has a heirarchies, thats what the TLD's are for. More TLD's may create an internet without heirarchies, but do we want that. Wasn't there just an article a day or so ago talking about how hard it is for the search engines to keep track of the net. Now with more TLD's that will become easier? Sure it will.....
These companies don't think they're pirating software, Microsoft does. This is all about intrepretation and Microsofts interpretation is that you can't transfer liscenses (if you upgrade to a newer machine or in some cases just newer hardware). There are issues with seat licences with their server OSes too. When originally released NT was never, ever going to have per user client licences (Novell did that and that was evil, Microsoft told us). Then they created Windows NT 4.0 with, guess what, per seat licences, lying bastards.
.NET components check your licenses with the Microsoft home office, and that after you have upgraded your hardware and/or your whole PC you will be conviently asked for your credit card #.
Microsoft is moving to per seat licences for almost all their new software. This is harder than hell to keep up with, espically if the licencses aren't transferrable.
Don't be suprised if the first
The RIAA better catch people with thousands of MP3's on their system, because the first person they put away for stealing 1 or 2 of Metallica's songs will cause them a PR nightmare. They are faced right now with having to do the near unthinkable (but they have few options left) and that it to put their customer in jail. The outcry from the public will be huge. Why? Because the penalty will far outweigh the crime and because of the outrageous markup on CD's these days. C'mon if I can buy a burnable CD for a dollar pressing out thousands of CD is costing cents (if that) per CD.
If the penalty for the first few examples the RIAA chooses to go after (stealing bits) exceeds the penalty that a first time drunk driver (putting other peoples lives in jeopardy) gets, then the message will come across to the public loud and clear, and they'll be mad as hell.
Amen brother. I'm growing tired of the Microsoft defenders that point to it as being good enough, better, or all you need. I want choice, and yes sometimes that choice can be Microsoft, but if they are the only choice, you won't even know what you are missing.
Open source software has been somewhat like a religion in that it is opening the eyes of people to different methods of doing things ("I was blind but now I see"). This is not bad, the grousing by Microsoft supporters is mostly just because the ease of their choice is being removed, you have to make decisions based on merit, cost etc. and not just based on that being the only thing you can get.
Having choices is a liberating thing.
Ironically, though, many influential members of the open source community are actually quite wealthy themselves (a least living comfortably). Much the same as Mr. Franklin. It appears that Open Source philanthropy is only new in terms of software.
This is a fascinating piece.
But then again, Franklins stove was an actual patentable device. Software and espically business methods should not even be patentable!
Perhaps this could provide proof that the Martian probe deactivation beam truly works!! ;-)
They better hope Episode II beats the new live action Scooby Doo movie out. Scooby will be CGI, and the lead character.
Not only that, but MusicCity claims to link all their servers together (way more than 30k users). But up to now the most I'd seen was about 25k or so. Its been going up steadily, three weeks ago they were in the 12-16k range for users on their servers.
OpenNap sites, thats where the users went. I went there months ago.
That's true its the law. This just makes me more convinced that if the Founding Fathers were alive today they would be seriously thinking of overthrowing our current government.
To hear today's politicians talk of the "Founders wishes" makes me sick. They talk about it and then they make laws directly opposed to those wishes.
I wonder how long until these two show up as characters on "Sheep in the Big City". ;-)
Use grip then. It can't use CDDB anymore, so you'll have to type in the tags yourself. Either leave them off or type the information in wrong.
;-)
Or you could just use OpenNap and not worrry about filtering.
First: How many of you Tivo owners out there also own a PC? My bet is everyone who owns a Tivo also owns a PC.
Second: Exactly how many times has your Tivo told you you are not allowed to record a program. I'd bet none here.
The Tivo is a specialized device and carries as mentioned above an big ease of use factor. Its not a PC, but as my first question states, it does no eliminate the need for a PC.
Specialization is an ease of use thing.
The copy control stuff that is being worked on will not be what the consumer wants to buy. As dumb as consumers are, they always recoil at attempts to control their actions (see Divx, etc.). Content controlled hardware will suffer the same fate, all that will be needed is manufacturers who DON'T make it. Those manufacuters will OWN the market, because consumers will notice the benifits of having devices without those limitations.
How long before the RIAA forms their own military to combat this?
Don't you mean can NOT do hot backups. This one should have been an easy find.
Coded wrong depends on what you want to do for backup. Some sites have the ability to shutdown and do cold backup / or exports for backups.
The Oracle backup and recovery handbook (from Oracle Press) is an excellent reference in this area.
I'm doing training on specific setup so its not costing that much. We're looking at 4 operators and 1 admin to train. Even if the other admin was sent to training cost for that would only be about $ 3,000.
So no, it wasn't a bad decision.
Oracle isn't that hard to administer, but it wouldn't be that hard to throw a large enough wrench in the works to hurt its performance.